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Psalms 50:10

For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Formalism;   Offerings;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   Forests;   Land;   Ownership, Divine;   Stewardship-Ownership;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Earth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;   Burnt Offering, the;   Forests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Nature;   Worship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Firstfruits;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Omniscience of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Herd;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Mount, Mountain;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Firstborn;   Wealth (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Cattle;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Behemoth;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Number;   Poetry, Hebrew;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Behemoth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for every animal of the forest is mine,the cattle on a thousand hills.
Hebrew Names Version
For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
King James Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
English Standard Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
New Century Version
because every animal of the forest is already mine. The cattle on a thousand hills are mine.
Amplified Bible
"For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
New American Standard Bible
"For every animal of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.
World English Bible
For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.
Legacy Standard Bible
For every beast of the forest is Mine,The cattle on a thousand hills.
Berean Standard Bible
for every beast of the forest is Mine-the cattle on a thousand hills.
Contemporary English Version
Every animal in the forest belongs to me, and so do the cattle on a thousand hills.
Complete Jewish Bible
for all forest creatures are mine already, as are the animals on a thousand hills;
Darby Translation
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;
Easy-to-Read Version
I already own all the animals in the forest. I own all the animals on a thousand hills.
George Lamsa Translation
For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and the cattle and the oxen upon the hills.
Good News Translation
all the animals in the forest are mine and the cattle on thousands of hills.
Lexham English Bible
because every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Literal Translation
for every beast of the forest is Mine; the cattle on a thousand hills;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For all the beestes of the felde are myne, and thousandes of catell vpon the hilles.
American Standard Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Bible in Basic English
For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
King James Version (1611)
For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For all the beastes of the forest are myne: and so are the cattel vpon a thousande hylles.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
English Revised Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For alle the wyelde beestis of wodis ben myne; werk beestis, and oxis in hillis.
Update Bible Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
Webster's Bible Translation
For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.
New King James Version
For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
New Living Translation
For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.
New Life Bible
For every animal among the trees is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
New Revised Standard
For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-10) For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
Revised Standard Version
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Young's Literal Translation
For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.

Contextual Overview

7 He says: "Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God! 8 I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me. 9 I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds. 10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills. 11 I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine. 12 Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me. 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats? 14 Present to God a thank-offering! Repay your vows to the sovereign One! 15 Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

every: Psalms 8:6-8, Psalms 104:24, Psalms 104:25, Genesis 1:24, Genesis 1:25, Genesis 2:19, Genesis 8:17, Genesis 9:2, Genesis 9:3, 1 Chronicles 29:14-16, Job 40:15-24, Jeremiah 27:5, Jeremiah 27:6, Daniel 2:38

cattle: Psalms 104:14, Genesis 31:9, Jonah 4:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:19 - possessor Joshua 8:27 - the cattle Psalms 16:2 - my goodness Psalms 148:10 - Beasts Isaiah 40:16 - nor Haggai 2:8 - General Matthew 21:3 - The Lord Luke 12:6 - and Luke 19:31 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 50:4
When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's royal court, "If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,
Genesis 50:11
When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians." That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
Numbers 19:11
"‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
Deuteronomy 1:1
This is what Moses said to the assembly of Israel in the Transjordanian wastelands, the arid country opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab.
Deuteronomy 34:8
The Israelites mourned for Moses in the deserts of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.
1 Samuel 31:13
They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh; then they fasted for seven days.
2 Samuel 1:17
Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.
Job 2:13
Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
Acts 8:2
Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For every beast of the forest [is] mine,.... By creation and preservation; and therefore he stood in no need of their bullocks and he goats;

[and the cattle upon a thousand hills; meaning all the cattle in the whole world.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For every beast of the forest is mine - All the beasts that roam at large in the wilderness; all that are untamed and unclaimed by man. The idea is, that even if God “needed” such offerings, he was not dependent on them - for the numberless beasts that roamed at large as his own would yield an ample supply.

And the cattle upon a thousand hills - This may mean either the cattle that roamed by thousands on the hills, or the cattle on numberless hills. The Hebrew will bear either construction. The former is most likely to be the meaning. The allusion is probably to the animals that were pastured in great numbers on the hills, and that were claimed by men. The idea is, that all - whether wild or tame - belonged to God, and he had a right to them, to dispose of them as he pleased. He was not, therefore, in any way dependent on sacrifices. It is a beautiful and impressive thought, that the “property” in all these animals - in all living things on the earth - is in God, and that he has a right to dispose of them as he pleases. What man owns, he owns under God, and has no right to complain when God comes and asserts his superior claim to dispose of it at his pleasure. God has never given to man the absolute proprietorship in “any” thing; nor does he invade our rights when he comes and claims what we possess, or when in any way he removes what is most valuable to us. Compare Job 1:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 50:10. Every beast of the forest is mine — Can ye suppose that ye are laying me under obligation to you, when ye present me with a part of my own property?


 
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